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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-May-1991 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name GOLDEN CHARIOT (L.691), GREAT WESTERN (L.692) Mining Division Trail Creek
BCGS Map 082F002
Status Showing NTS Map 082F04W
Latitude 049º 04' 50'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 47' 48'' Northing 5436716
Easting 441824
Commodities Gold, Copper Deposit Types L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Golden Chariot occurrence is hosted by the Early Jurassic Rossland monzonite which is comprised of a biotite-hornblende-augite monzonite stock that is medium-grained, grey to green in color and hosts magnetite, apatite, some sphene with epidote, chlorite, pyrite and pyrrhotite. The monzonite intrudes the Lower Jurassic Rossland Group (Elise Formation) sediments, volcanics and greenstone.

The Golden Chariot and Great Western Crown grants are traversed northeast and southwest by a wide, iron stained mineralized zone. The zone consists of sulphides infilling fractures and/or faults hosting auriferous pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite in a gangue of altered host rock and calcite. The pyrite occurs as crystals in the pyrrhotite or as disseminations in the host rock. Drilling in the west part of the claim exposed a 0.76 metre wide solid sulphide vein carrying low gold values. In the eastern part of the property, a shaft was sunk in 3.6 metres of massive ore in a quartz gangue. In both veins, the sulphides were coarse-grained pyrrhotite and pyrite with minor patches of intermixed chalcopyrite. The ore is reported to assay about 5 to 7 grams per tonne gold (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 77, page 127).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1896-27,558
EMPR BULL *74; 109
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 19-30; 1988, pp. 33-43; 1989, pp. 11-27; 1990, pp. 9-31
EMPR OF 1988-1; 1989-11; 1990-8; 1990-9; 1991-2; 1991-16
GSC MAP 1002; 1004; 1504A; 1518
GSC MEM *77, p. 127
GSC P 79-26
ECON GEOL Vol.68, 1973, pp. 1337-1340
PERS COMM Andrew, K., March 1991
Thorpe, R.I. (1967): Controls of Hypogene Sulphide Zoning, Rossland, British Columbia, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin

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